Global Digital Finance partners with the Digital Pound Foundation to improve policy collaboration across the digital finance ecosystem

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Published: February 29, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Global Digital Finance (GDF) has joined the Digital Pound Foundation (DPF) as a strategic partner. GDF is an open innovation community that works towards improving market standards and regulation for digital finance through engagement with industry, policymakers and regulators.

Global Digital Finance and the DPF will collaborate on areas of mutual interest and alignment across the two organisations’ policy and advocacy activities, as well as coordinating on joint educational and awareness initiatives such as podcasts, webinars and other events.

Commenting on the partnership, Elise Soucie, Director of Global Policy and Regulatory Affairs, GDF said: “We are delighted to partner with the Digital Pound Foundation. A key part of our external engagement involves collaboration with other industry bodies like the DPF. Through broader cooperation across the digital finance ecosystem, we are able to work collectively towards improved outcomes for all market participants.”

Jannah Patchay, Executive Director and Policy Lead, Digital Pound Foundation added: “We are thrilled to welcome Global Digital Finance as a strategic partner. Our organisations have a shared interest in developing the appropriate policy, legal and regulatory frameworks required to advance adoption of digital currencies and new forms of digital money, and this is an area in which we are already collaborating successfully and productively. As the DPF continues to explore and champion the development of a diverse, effective and competitive ecosystem for new forms of digital money, we particularly value the insight and perspectives that engagement with a broad range of trade associations and industry participants can bring.

Interested in becoming a member of the Digital Pound Foundation? If you would like to learn more about DPF membership, and its many benefits and opportunities, please head over to our membership page, or reach out to Michelle Brook, Membership Community Manager, directly via email:c membership@digitalpoundfoundation.com

For more information about Global Digital Finance, please visit: https://www.gdf.io/ or email: melissa@gdf.io

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Whilst most CBDC experiments have involved private sector technology providers, the overwhelming majority of these experiments, to date, have not involved participation from other private sector actors. The Digital Pound Foundation is unique in proposing a model whereby the public and private sectors can fully engage in the design, development and adoption of a digital Pound, thus contributing to its successful roll-out and helping drive forward the UK’s transition to a digital economy.

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